Author: Gabriella M
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Reading Ourselves
Looking back on my writing this semester, I’m particularly proud of the piece I wrote about an event I went to this semester. The event was a Chem Seminar in which Professor Gene Hall of Rutgers University talked about his study which was conducted to find the different types of macromolecules that are in the…
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Maps We Need
I think a map we need in life, or that is interesting is to see how all the people that I know are connected. Could be relationship wise, family, distant family because ultimately we all come from one single starting point and seeing how everyone is connected would be interesting. What sparked this idea is…
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My Propaganda Drawn “Map”
On the left is a picture of a propaganda poster that I personally drew for my 11th grade history class. This was to “support the Federalist Party” for an assignment. I felt that is strongly correlated only because my most recent essay was focused on the octopus that is desplayed in the propaganda map on…
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GIS Mapping
I would map all the places where women are CEOs in the world compared to men. Maybe this to combat the glass ceiling theory or the glass escalator theory to show how it is still so unfair that women are not able to climb the workforce ladder as fast as men in this day and…
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Drawing Power
Throughout history, maps were usually used as a means of travel from point A to point B. However, in Kisaburo Ohara’s A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, 1904 shows that maps can be used more than just for directions. Rather it can be used to represent early 20th-century geopolitics tensions in a “humorous”…
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Event 3: Diwali: A celebration of lights
The lights started to dim and the food smell started getting stronger. It was the celebration of Diwali at Muhlenberg College and all the students started pouring into the event space. Spotted on the other side of the room, there was a long line for getting henna, an Indian tradition. The first event of the…
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[Draft] – Drawing Power
Throughout history, maps were usually used as a means for getting around. However, in Kisaburo Ohara’s A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia, 1904 is more than just a geographical map, but rather a playful representation of early 20th-century geopolitics; it is a critical commentary on power, influence, and national identity during a period…
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Event 2: The Swing State
As a first time voter, I had the privilege of going to a rally for the first time that was hosted on my very own college grounds. I never thought I would be going to one of these events because I was never really much into politics growing up. Yes I’ve heard a bit here…
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10 on 1
Map Pg 116-117 expanding on point #10 Russia is seen to be an octopus and it looks like its tenticles are going all over the place. This might be shown as a metaphor as it is trying to conqor more countries to make as thier own because they are an already large countrie them self.…